ovid’s fasti: roman holidays

Description

About the Book:”In her extended introduction, Nagle offers illuminating information and commentary . . . This verse translation, internally glossed for clarification, is as accurate as modern English will allow. . . . Highly recommended.” –Choice”An excellent rendition in English of Ovid’s poetic calendar of the Roman religious year, with an original introduction and useful notes as well as a glossary . . . The translation is elegant and geared to the modern reader.” –The Journal of Indo-European StudiesThis elegant translation brings Ovid’s poetic calendar of the Roman religious year to a new generation of students and scholars. A valuable source of information about the Roman calendar, it complements Ovid’s masterwork, the Metamorphoses.